The Opelousas courier., 1887-02-12
Items Of Interest.

1t costs money to advertise, bat it costs
more money not to advertise
Alexandria Democrat Col James Jetfries
and Hon =. F. Meeker will represent Rapides
Parish in the Agricultural Convention at
Lake Charles on the 23d instant.
The number of troops furnished by the Fed
eral authorities during the civil war, from
struggle, reached the enormous number OF
| 2 ,772, ,40S.
By vote of 80 to 2 the Tennessee Legisla
lature passed joint resolution to submit a
constitutional amendment to the people to
prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicat-
/ ing beverages in that State.
| N. o. States A Texas paper has taken ad-
vantage of the lull in war talk to ask, 'What
has raised all this stink about Canadal" We
take pleasure in informing our elegant con-
| temporary that the warlike Ingalls, has been
stirring up dried Goldfish.
| The Scientific American, published by Mum
& Co., New York, presents weekly to ITS read
ers the best and most reliable record OF yarl-
GUS improvements in machinery while the sci
entific progress of the country can in no way
be CLEANED SO we'll as by the regular pernsal
of its pages.
St. Mary Review: The wheeimen of New
Orleans are to have lantern parade during
Mardi Gras. which will be one of the novel
features. Their byccles will have lanterns
placed on them, and procession. !, will move
after night. Wheelmen from different sec
tions are daily notifying the New Orleans
club of their intention to participate.
N. o. States: Canada has ordered all hei
| pensioners to be in readiness in case the fish
cry dispute terminates in war 1t our Secre-
! tary of War was to order all of our pensioners
under arms as an Offset to this action, the
| United States would have an army that would
make Canada shiver until hef knees ratified
| in her boot legs like peas in pod.
| Shreveport Times: Our contemporaries are
sadly in error with regard to the decision of
the Supreme Court on the razor as a concealed
weapon. The court declared that razor
simply carried on the person without intent
| to use same as weapon, did not come within
the purview of the statute. razor carried
as weapon does come within the meaning OF
| the law and the Supreme Court will doubt.
less so declare when the question is presented
The President has signed the Interstate
Commerce bill, as we never doubted he would
do, and that measure will go into effect as
soon as the commission created under it has
been appointed by the President. 1t will
probably take some time to put it in full 'ac-
| tive operation but within year the country
will have an opportunity of thoroughly test
| ing it aud seeing how far it goes toward cor
recting those inequalities, iDJastices and dis
people had SO loudly aud SO long protested
/ Times Democrat.
The New Iberia Enterprise says of the COM
ing Interstate Agricultural Convention at Lake
Charles: ''This is one of the most important
meetings ever called i'll the State. Not be-
cause it is to be held in Lake Charles, not be-
cause it has been called by Gov McEnery, or
because it is indorsed by other leading men
of the State, but because it is the meeting OF
the farmers to devise plan for diversified ln-
dustries aud make farming pay: The farm
ers, then, of this parish, mnst fall into line
promptly and catch the step OF the onward
march,"
Miss Nina Van Zandt has been married by
proxy to the doomed anarchist, August Spies.
the "Paola +" of~the occasion, being the
| groom's brother Henry. The ceremony was
performed by Justice Engelhardt, of Jeffer-
son, Illinois, who little while ago made him
/ self conspicuous by his vehement condemna
tion of the verdict against the Anarchists. II
is difficult to see what the heaastrong young
woman has gained by this vicarious union
for the Sheriff ayouches himself hard hearted
enough to grant to the so called wife no ad
mission to the Jail more than he did to tht
amorous maiden.-Statcs.
N. b. Times Democrat: The Southern pa
pers recognize the truth of the statement
a made by the Times-D Democrat the other day
thai the present boom in the South, thu
large investments made in Southern property
the development of resources, the advance il
prosperity, is due wholly to the late World
!
. tbe world the wonderful resources aud adgan
tsqes of this section. 1t has taken only tW'
years since the Exposition to secure tho re
suits already accomplished, and we are but OF
y tl@Bthreshold of new era of progress and ad
; vaneement that has come as a result of tb
: Worlds Industrial Exposition here, just a
!, Colorado and Kansas owe their prosperity t
the Philadelphia Centennial and Englan
much of it's manufacturing pre-eminenee to it
] London Worlds Fairs.
! LAFAYETTE Advertiser: Evidence of enter
, prise and thrift on the part of several of gu
citizens is manifested in the move to organic
a Homestead and Building Association
) on the plan and for the purpose similar +
3 those of like associations throughout th
r country Shares are fixed at two hundre
dollars-payable ir instalments of one doila
: per month, and We understand that quite
, number have been taken. 1t is said that
| | list of subscribers embracing $50 or 800 share
/ would be sufficient to 90 to work on Thi
number of subscribers would allow a, ioa
eyery two or three months, as the associatio
. might deem proper, and this accomplished b
offering at auction the accumulated fund
the highest bidder. This appears to us to
{ the best savings bank that d man with moo
crate means can patronlZe, ana we trust tua
, the move will succeed.
Il Capt Sam Hynes of this parish, says tb
!. Natchitoches Review, has on his plantation
. about four miles above town on Cane rive
:, some $50 head of the finest beefcattle we hav
+ seen for many years. Having made last yea
Q a very large quantity of corn, he conceive
:. the idea of purchasing cattle, which in the ia
of the year are always cheap, and feeding
: TO them. Hepurchased machine which rur
q by steam and crushes the corn, cob and al
/, with about one bushel of cotton seed to ever
barrel of corn, making most excellent fee'
. In addition to this, in his pasture are larg
: racks filled with fine bermuda hay (which Ca
tain Hynes also raised) from which the cattl
eat at will. More than hundred of thes
cattle are now seal fat, and will average l5t
J, pounds each. These beeves will no doul
command good price whenever the captai
!, is ready to sell them, which we understad wi
/. be in a short time.